The twelfth season of “The Voice”.
It begins on Friday February 25 on TF1 and promises to be exceptional.
Indeed, for the first time in the history of the show, a duo joined the bench of coaches: Bigflo and Oli.
They will be alongside Zazie, Vianney and Amel Bent.
And if the casting of the coaches tends to oscillate from one season to another, the presenter has not changed since the start of the broadcast of the program in 2012. Nikos Aliagas was the guest, this Wednesday 15 February, of the program "Quotidien" on TMC.
And beyond being a known and recognized host of the French small screen, he is also a journalist and photographer.
“What happens interests me and challenges me.
Once a journalist, always a journalist
,” says Nikos Aliagas.
An exhibition of his Venetian photos opened on February 4 at the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani in Venice and runs until April 2.
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Following this event, the presenter of the talk show then asks if it is the photographer who presents “The Voice” or it is the animator who exhibits in Venice.
"Not bad.
The Venetian Palace did not know that I was on television
”, he assures before adding “
afterwards do I take photos of society in
'
The Voice
'
, in a certain way.
[...]
I spend much time behind the scenes me in The Voice, it occurs there the emission.
You will see that the casting this year... it comes from life, not from TV or song studios
.
This twelfth year of the show is also a record year, because it counts more than 50,000 "serious" applications - against some years at 30,000 -, as Nikos Aliagas specifies.
A parallel between the two flagship TV hooks of the front page is made: Star Ac and The Voice.
“In general, we are not there for the same reasons.
This year we don't have an artist who tries but doesn't succeed and who pushes the door
.
“
I have nothing written
”
The new coach duo, the rappers Bigflo and Oli, at the start of the show, had a little trouble keeping candidates on their team.
“Two is more complicated, you have to deliberate together.
And when they disagree, they fight.
[Laughs] They are funny and put a lot of freshness.
[...] Bigflo and Oli do not care a little the brothel, and it is well
, recognizes Nikos Aliagas.
The telecrochet host then lists the qualities that, in his opinion, make a good presenter: not leading, accompanying, adapting, putting others in the spotlight and at the end saying “thank you and see you next week”.
He recognizes it without batting an eyelid,
“it's the families who are there who give you behind the scenes, it's up to you to adapt.
I have nothing written.
I'm with the director and the only certainty is the time we start.
I have a few launches and after you adapt.
[...] We just try to accompany people on Saturday evening
.
And when Yann Barthès questions Nikos Aliagas about his long-term desires, the 54-year-old responds with humor:
“In 10 years?
To put hair clearly”
.
More seriously, by this date the animator should, on paper, be retired.
"But I don't even know where I will be at the end of the season.
Our jobs are like that, we don't know.
I have had many lives, I may have others.
[...] The reality is that I do not take all this for granted, it does not belong to me
, ”concludes Nikos.